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Tara bridge

Built between 1937 and 1940 it was the biggest vehicular concrete arch bridge in Europe… A Yugoslav Partisan raiding party blew up the central arch with the aid of one of the bridge engineers, Lazar Jauković. The attack cut the only feasible crossing over the Tara Canyon halting the Italian advance during WWII. Jauković was eventually captured, and executed by the Italian army…